Since then, astronomers around the world have been studying the planet’s composition through a range of techniques including ...

Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual giant planet—sometimes called "forbidden"—could have an atmosphere with ...

A newly studied planetary system appears to break the expected order of worlds, revealing an unusual arrangement that current theories struggle to explain. “Many Vile Earthlings Munch Jam Sandwiches ...

Using the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) on the Gemini South telescope at the International Gemini ...

Astronomers have discovered that a giant planet, WASP-189b, echoes the composition of its host star, providing the first ...

A slow zoom into WASP-189b (also known as HD 133112 b), an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet with a three-day orbit around its host star, which is named HD 133112. Astronomers discovered that WASP-189b ...

I/ATLAS may be more than the strangest space object astronomers have observed within our solar system—it could also be one of ...

On Wednesday, researchers released an analysis suggesting that there’s a “mass gap” in the population of black holes that ...

Teledyne Space Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has been awarded a contract by Schmidt ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has unveiled TOI-4616 b, an Earth-sized planet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star. Published in a March study on the preprint server arXiv, the findings ...

‘Spin is a fossil record of how a planet formed,’ said study lead author and researcher at Northwestern University Dino Chih-Chun Hsu in an announcement about the discovery. ‘By measuring how quickly ...

The largest survey of exoplanets using an observatory atop Maunakea on the Big Island confirms a long-predicted relationship between planetary mass and rotation — putting a new spin on planet ...